Sounding toy



Sept. 30 1924.

L. F. KIPP SOUNDING. TOY

Filed April 29 Fz'g. 3.

amusement device Patented Sept. 30, 19242 UNITED STATES LEONARD F. KIPP,0F COUNCIL ELIE IFS. IOWA.

SOUNDING- ZTDY.

Application filed April 29, 1922. Serial No.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEONARD F. KIPP, a citizen of the United States,residing at Council Bluifs, in the county of Pottawattamie and State ofIowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in SoundingToys, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in amusement devices ortoys of that type in which a loud sound or detonation is produced by therapid movement of the device and an object of the invention is toprovide a simple and inexpensive article adapted to emit a loud report,for instance in imitation of a fire cracker, and which may repeat thesound indefinitely without causing undue wearing ofthe parts.

Other objects of the invention are to provide a device which may bereadily grasped and easily operated and a device that may be packagedcompactly for economical transportation and which will form anattractive article for use at banquets, dinner parties, Fourth of Julycelebrations, etc.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention will be morefully described hereinafter and will be more particularly pointed out inthe claim appended hereto.

In the drawings, wherein like symbols refer to like or correspondingparts throughout the several views.

Fig. 1 is a side view of the improved Fig. 2 is a plan view showing thesame in the open position; and

Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the device closed.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, the improved amusementdevice comprises a body portion composed in the instance shown of twostrips 4 and 5 of flexible material, preferably a tough paper, thestrips being relatively thin and elongated in the manner best shown inFig. 1 having the ends thereof secured together as by gluing andpreferably reinforced as by staples 6.

The end portions are shaped with curved indentations 7 entering thestrips from above and below to provide constricted necks 8 convenientfor the grasp of both hands of the operator. The extreme edges of theend portions are preferably rounded to further the operators grasp. Theintermediate portions of the two strips'l and 5 are left unsecured sothat they may bulge outwardly away from each other as indicated in Fig.2 and the median portions are preferably crimped as indicated at 9 inopposite directions to give the device when closed an initial impetus tothe two strips to move in opposite directions when the handles orsecured end portions are brought together.

In Fig. 1 there is represented at 10 the grain of the paper the paperbeing selected and cut so that this grain 10 extends transversely of thelength of the strip and the lines of the grain run parallel with thecrimps 9 and with the direction of the lines of bending of the paper.This facilitates the opening and closing of the intermediate portions ofthe device, it also adds to the life of the article inasmuch as the bodyof k the paper will not be so apt to crack when bent upon the transverselines of the grain, and in actual practice the report is found to belouder with the grain thus disposed.

In the use of the device, the operator grasps both of the handles orsecured end portions and moves the handles toward and from one another.In bringing these handles together, the device is caused to as sume'theopen or bulged condition shown in Fig. 2 and when the handles aresubsequently drawn apart rapidly the intermediate unsecured portions arebrought forcibly together and into contact and the movement is found toresult in the emitting of a loud report in imitation of a fire crackeror other explosive.

As shown in Fig. 3, the devices may be packed very close together fortransportation and the article is for this reason con venient to carryabout in the pocket to weddings dinner parties, and the likecelebrations where its use will be attended with the desired productionof noise without how ever entailing any of the disastrous conse ouenceswhich are known to follow the use of fire-works.

I do not wish to be restricted to the size, form, and proportions of thevarious parts and obviously changes could be made in the constructionherein described without departing from the spirit of the invention, itbeing only necessary that such changes fall within the scope of theappended claim.

What is claimed is:

A sounding toy comprising a pair of strips of flexible material, saidstrips being relatively thin and long and secured together in superposedrelation at their opposite ends, the intermediate portions of saidstrips being unattached and free of each other and the median portionsthereof being criinped in opposite directions with the inner sides ofthe creases facing each other to produce a normal tendency for saidintermediate portions to separate, said superposed strips being adaptedto be drawn suddenly taut :tor slapping said intermediate Leoenseportions of the strips together and producing the desired sound, theinterifastened ends of the strips being relaxed for permitting return ofthe intermediate portions to open position. i

In testimony whereof, I have afiixed my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

LEONARD F. KIPP Witnesses ARTHUR H; Srunens, WILLIAM A; Srnnens.

